Distrust, Mismanagement, and Burnout Masquerading as Innovation
Pros
A paycheck. Some talented individual contributors still trying to do the right thing despite leadership. If you enjoy constant re-orgs and new team names, there’s no shortage of churn.
Cons
Upper management (COO, CEO, CSO, CIO) have lost all trust in employees, which prompted invasive monitoring like ActivTrak. While they now claim it will be “removed for employees,” they’ve openly said they have other ways of tracking. Leadership’s obsession with surveillance shows exactly how broken the relationship with staff has become. There is still a relentless focus on Ovation milestone dates—even though deadlines were supposed to be “a thing of the past.” Corners are cut, and quality suffers as leadership chases delivery at any cost. The infrastructure is equally neglected: versions behind, best practices ignored, and poorly managed. Re-orgs, renames, and reshuffling are used to bury accountability for past failures, while creating confusion about who owns what. Instead of stabilizing the foundation, leadership diverts attention to flashy AI initiatives (e.g., “agentic” solutions) that the environment isn’t even built to support. Work-life balance does not exist—late nights and weekends are the norm. HR’s heavy push on “wellness” feels like damage control for an overworked, burned-out staff. And let’s not forget: when employees post honest feedback here on Glassdoor, leadership expends energy trying to figure out who wrote it, rather than addressing the truth behind the reviews.